Nursing and Allied Health Resource Guide

Bact Facts Interactive allows you to view data from Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs), a part of CDC’s Emerging Infections Program (EIP). ABCs is laboratory- and population-based surveillance that monitors invasive bacterial infections that cause bloodstream infections, sepsis, and meningitis in persons living in the community.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.

Data and statistics topics, tools, and related organizations at CDC.

Harvard Dataverse is a repository for a wide variety of research data.

The healthcare-associated infection component of CDC’s Emerging Infections Program (EIP) engages a network of state health departments and their academic medical center partners to help answer critical questions about emerging HAI threats, advanced infection tracking methods, and antibiotic resistance in the United States.

The data tool provides healthcare statistics and information for hospital inpatient and emergency department settings, as well as population-based healthcare data on counties. Generate tables and graphs on national and regional statistics and trends for community hospitals in the United States.

National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) AtlasPlus. An interactive tool that gives users the ability to create customized tables, maps, and charts using nearly 20 years of CDC’s surveillance data on HIV, viral hepatitis, STD, and TB. AtlasPlus also provides access to indicators on social determinants of health (SDOH) allowing users to view social and economic data in conjunction with surveillance data for each disease.

Maintained by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, links to all health departments in the U.S.

Maintained by The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study provides a comprehensive picture of mortality and disability across countries, time, age, and sex. It quantifies health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, so that health systems can be improved and disparities eliminated. You must register for a free account to download data. Data is available in CSV format.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) maintains this database of surveys, censuses, vital statistics, and other health-related data. It’s the place to start your health data search. Data available in CSV format.

Maintained by the World Bank, this data contains key health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from a variety of international sources.

The OECD Health Database offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries. It is an essential tool to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from international comparisons of diverse health systems.

WHO's World Health Data Hub is a comprehensive digital platform for global health data. It provides end-to-end solutions to collect, store, analyze, and share data that is timely, reliable, and actionable.

The Global Health Observatory is a portal for worldwide health data. The maps, graphs, and tables are visually compelling and easy to manipulate or filter on the website.